Scala Center Advisory Board and SIP Meeting Results

Scala Center Advisory Board

On November 30, the Scala Center Advisory Board had their
quarterly meeting.

The board has two new members: Morgan Stanley, and an additional
community representative, Lars Hupel.

Scala Center activities for the past quarter included progress on the
MOOCs, Scalafix, scalajs-bundler, SIPs, the new Scala Platform
Process, Spores, Scala Native, Scastie, Scaladex, hackathons, and a
new code of conduct.

Scala Improvement Process (SIP) Committee

On October 25, the SIP committee had its monthly meeting.

There were procedural issues with the previous vote on SIP-27
(Trailing commas), proposed by Dale Wijnand. That vote was canceled
and the committee agreed on clarified voting rules. A new vote on
SIP-27 was held under the new rules, and the proposal was accepted,
pending a final round of changes by Dale.

Also discussed was SIP-20 (Improved lazy val initialization),
proposed by Dmitry Petrashko and others. The proposal was
marked as dormant, since it has only been implemented in Dotty.
A volunteer is needed to implement it in the main Scala compiler.